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O aye, a prudent man aye sees to his wife's besom." Saunders paused, musing. "Ye'll maybe no believe me, but often what mak's a' the hale differ atween a freendly turn up wi' the wife, that kind o' cheers a man up, an' what ye micht ca' an onpleesantness is juist nae mair nor nae less than whether there's plenty o' heather on his wife's besom."
'I'll see ye the morn; I hae tell'd the sheyk we are frae the same parts. Maybe I can serve you, if ye ken what's for your guid, but I canna say mair the noo. The sheyk escorted him out of the court, for he slept in one of the two striped horse-hair tents, which had been spread within the enclosures belonging to the village, around which were tethered the mules and asses that carried his wares.
As the reader uttered the words "was lost and is found" and ceased, each turned to the other with a whisper. Mrs Mair persisted in hers; and the other, which was odd enough, yielded and listened. "Wad the tale haud wi' lassies as weel 's laddies, Mistress Findlay, div ye think?" said Mrs Mair. "Ow, surely!" was the response; "it maun du that. There no respec' o' persons wi' him.
I took him wi's juist to explain the match, d'ye see, an' aboot the bats an' wickets, an' sic like, an' so on, because I'm no' juist acquant wi' a' the oots an' ins o' the thing. A lot o' the loons gathered roond an' lay doon on the girss, an' they keepit their tongues gaen to the playin', I can tell ye. Ye wudda thocht they kent mair aboot cricket than the loons that were playin'.
Now, therefore, my lord, unless Maister George Heriot has something mair to allege as a motive for his liberality, vera different from the possession of your estate and moreover, as he could gain little by the capture of your body, wherefore should it not be your soul that he is in pursuit of?" "My soul, you rascal!" said the young lord; "what good should my soul do him?"
"What w'y am I to win hame, my lord?" he said, when they had walked some distance without word spoken. "By the Aberdeen smack," returned Malcolm. "She sails on Tuesday. I will see you on board. You must take young Davy with you, for I wouldn't have him here after you are gone. There will be nothing for him to do." "Ye're unco ready to pairt wi' 's noo 'at ye ha'e nae mair use for 's," said Peter.
So there was ae night that I was rather mair than ordinary hearty, and says he to me: 'Mr Stuart, says he, 'will you lend your name to a bit paper for me? 'No, I thank ye, sir, says I; 'I never wish to be caution for onybody. 'It's of no consequence, said he, and there was no more passed. But as I was rising to gang hame, 'Come, tak' anither, Mr.
He tellt ye, nae doobt, 'at ye was the bonniest lassie 'at ever was seen, and bepraised ye 'at yer ain minnie wouldna hae kenned ye! Jist tell me, Phemy, dinna ye think a hantle mair o' yersel sin' he took ye in han'? She would have Phemy see that she had gathered from him no figs or grapes, only thorns and thistles. Phemy made no reply: had she not every right to think well of herself?
"Hoo am I temptin' at her, mem?" "That's plain to half an e'e. Ir ye no lattin' her live believin' a lee? Ir ye no allooin' her to gang on as gien she was somebody mair nor mortal, when ye ken she's nae mair Marchioness o' Lossie nor ye're the son o' auld Duncan MacPhail? Faith, ye ha'e lost trowth gien ye ha'e gaint the warl' i' the cheenge o' forbeirs!" "Mint at naething again the deid, mem.
Where's the Dominie, John? 'Mr. Sampson's been at hame these twa hours and mair, but I dinna think Mr. Harry cam hame wi' him. 'Not come hame wi' him? said the lady; 'desire Mr. Sampson to step this way directly. 'Mr.
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